US-CA11 · jury_instructions
11th Cir. Pattern Jury Instr. (Civil) 9.25
Copyright – Defenses – Affirmative Defense – Fair Use
[Name of defendant] claims, as an affirmative defense, that [his/her/its] use
of [name of plaintiff]’s copyrighted work is a fair use. A fair use isn’t an
infringement of copyright. [Name of defendant] must prove fair use by a
preponderance of the evidence.
Certain uses recognized as favoring fair use include criticism, parody,
Provenance
- Source
- ca11.uscourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- civil-2017-07
- Content hash
a27c76b39247e7410dd00d7834fa4fd6cff9f83eeca3b69ce7f74da1392031ef
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